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New FM adult book club draws enough interest for wait list

Between the Covers reading Emily Giffin's 'Where We Belong'

Emily Giffin's "Where We Belong" will be the first book to be read by the members of Between the Covers adult book club at Fort Morgan Public Library. (emilygiffin.com / Courtesy photo)

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"Between the Covers," the new adult book club at Fort Morgan Public Library, is getting ready to start reading Emily Giffin's "Where We Belong," for its first book. While the club is currently full, people can still sign up to be on the waitlist, and the library will see if it can get more copies of the book. For more information or to join the waitlist, call the library at 542-4000.

FORT MORGAN — — When Cindy Frye started putting together the idea of a book club for local adults to read the same book and then discuss it, she hoped that she would get enough interest to make it work.

Frye, Fort Morgan's adult/teen services librarian, recently found out that she did not have to worry about enough people wanting to participate in Fort Morgan Public Library's new adult book club, Between the Covers.

The book club, which initially had a limit of 12 members due to the number of copies of Emily Giffin's "Where We Belong" the local library had, now includes 21 members with a waitlist of at least two people.

Frye said that the library was able to reach out through the Colorado State Library and the inter-library-loan program to make available more copies of the first book the club will read. And she said that some club members had eBook copies they would read along with the club.

"Twenty-some people," Frye said, audibly excited about the interest level, "that shows there is a need" for a book club for local adults.

She said she expected to be able to get enough copies of "Where We Belong" by the Jan. 27 distribution for the start of the book club.

And she sounded happy that some club members had eBook copies to read, too.

"That was kind of nice," she said, and it allows those club members to read the book how they prefer, on an electronic device.

The club members will read the same book each month and then get together to discuss what they read.

Registered participants will be able to pick up copies of "Where We Belong" the week of Jan. 27 at the library.

The first meeting for discussion will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at the library upstairs by the fireplace.

Then the club will continue to meet the last Thursday of each month to discuss the book they read over the course of that month.

"Book club members will be encouraged to help select books for monthly reads and meet together the following month for discussion," according to Frye.

Frye said that she has already put in an order for copies of the second book Between the Covers members will read, "The Road," by Cormac McCarthy.

She said that extra copies of it should be available through the inter-library-loan program to help meet demand if club numbers go up even more.

"I don't think there's going to be a problem locating books," she said. "We're just going to have to be organized.

After reading "The Road," Between the Covers members will help pick future selections for the club to read, Frye said.

For more information about Between the Covers, call Cindy Frye at 542-4000.

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